Hidden Sanity at Villain School - Chapter 46



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(046)

It wasn’t that the hunters under Team Leader Kim were weak.

Neither the telekinesis nor the psychic were far behind in comparison to the Shinseoul students that Sega had seen over the past month.

He seemed to have a lot of experience and was good at handling various weapons.

‘But why does it feel a bit shabby?’

One hunter managed to block a harpoon attack from a fish-man with his forearm, but fell to the ground as the next fish-man attacked his leg.

‘You can block it with your arms, but you can’t even hold it with your legs?’

Another hunter was engaged in a fight with a beast-like demon that looked like a mixture of a goby and a squid, and was nearly killed by a leaping attack that made it fly and bite.

‘Just now, you could’ve just avoided it by amplifying the biocurrent and aimed for the gills, right?’

On one side, another psychic hunter rolled on the floor covered in venom sprayed by a water snail demon, while a psychic hunter was pierced through his armor and forearm by a thorn thrown by a demon and fell back bleeding.

‘It wasn’t that venomous by Hunter standards. Are there parts of the body that look like normal people?’

‘Even if you’re a telekinesis, is your body that weak? Even Joo Da-hyun is better than that!’

At that moment, Sega remembered the story he had heard in his first class of martial arts.

‘… … Professor Kang Chae-seo said that she had no intention of letting you die. That’s what she meant.’

Most hunters could only use one of their innate traits.

It was secretly rare for a bodybuilder to have their strength and muscle power both externally and internally enhanced, and for that to be maintained ‘always’ throughout their ‘whole body’.

In Shinseoul, growth was easy thanks to Kang Chae-seo’s training methods and high concentration of magical power, but it was extremely difficult for hunters outside to achieve more than they were born with.

“Potion! Potion!”

Since he had not learned poison magic, he could not detoxify himself. Since he had not learned lightning magic, he could not move explosively by amplifying his bioelectricity. Also, since he had not received training in rigid body magic, the body of a telekinesis magician was only slightly stronger than that of an ordinary person.

‘That’s why they call us Shinseoul, Shinseoul. There’s a reason why we are a prestigious school.’

Those hunters may be of lower rank than the outside hunters, but the difference between the Shinseoul Hunters and the average Hunters was clear.

After Sega killed a couple more demons coming up from the rocks, he called Cheon Sa-hee.

“Angel Hee!”

She was looking at them with a sadistic smile in her orange eyes, as if she found it amusing that the hunters given to her by President Yang were being pushed around.

‘Why aren’t you doing anything? If it were Joo Da-hyun or Geum Eun-yo, they would have taken care of that in one go. Are you trying to test me?’

As countless questions began to arise in Sega’s mind, Cheon Sa-hee nodded as if she understood something.

For a moment, Sega saw a blue magical power rushing around her.

-!

An orange shockwave seemed to radiate from her, and a pair of angel-like wings covered in white feathers sprouted from behind her.

Cheon Sa-hee flapped her wings once.

Jiing-!

Pure white heat rays shot out in streaks from the wings.

Dozens of demons coming up from the port were engulfed in flames, twisting their bodies and disappearing into ashes.

It was an overwhelming sight.

‘Baekyeon, like Cheongyeon, was a fire that burned magic power itself.’

Sega looked at Cheon Sa-hee, recalling what he had learned during his pyromancy class.

I didn’t ask the stupid question of why I was just watching when I had that kind of power.

‘Am I crazy?’

Anyway, she’ll need the mission evaluation points too, so she’ll have to catch up.

‘You shouldn’t get close to a disaster like that. Absolutely not. That’s like a typhoon. If the typhoon changes course and comes towards you, you shouldn’t get angry, you should hide.’

Sega had no intention of asking uncomfortable questions to the Hunter who burned dozens of demons to death with a single flap of his wings, just to protect the people he met for the first time today or his remaining conscience.

She shrugged and gave instructions to the hunters under Team Leader Kim.

There were many casualties, but not a single death.

“It seems to be roughly sorted out, so heal him and then pick up the magic stone. If he shows up again, call me or Sega.”

Whose orders would I dare to disobey?

“yes yes!”

Jeong Se-ga stayed at the port until the afternoon of that day and killed 47 demons.

Cheon Sa-hee stayed at the port until the afternoon of that day and burned and killed about 470 demons.

The two continued to search the rocks near the dock on Thursday and Friday, slaughtering the beasts.

“The spring sun is hot, and my skin is getting sunburned. Can I borrow some sunscreen?”

“You take it. I’m a bodybuilder so I won’t ride it.”

“Apply it on your face.”

“……I?”

Cheon Sa-hee burned the demons to death, saying in a tension-free voice that her face was burning.

“Was I too rough with your touch? My sensitive area is turning red and trembling. Ah. It’s become sensitive.”

“Don’t say anything that could mislead me. Please.”

“Ahaha! You can make that kind of expression too? Aren’t you curious about my other expressions? Like a crying face?”

Sega was also active, mainly fighting large crab monsters that did not synergize well with Baekyeon.

‘Is this enough to properly act like a future S-class?’

By briefly cutting off the legs with the sword and raising the blue flame on the shell, the crab’s owner died without being able to move.

Team Leader Kim and the hunters followed the two around to collect the magic stones.

“Brother. I think I understand why they are called Shinseoul Shinseoul. Of course, they are kids who have received advance learning, but I doubted how great the students would be, but they are on a whole other level from us.”

“That female student is a female student, but the male student is really amazing. Once you cut it with a black sword, the shell that didn’t get scratched no matter how many times you shot it is now cleanly cut… … It’s really cool.”

“It uses electricity and fireworks, so one of them must be an artifact, right? Even for a Shinseoul Hunter who has received thorough pre-training, isn’t it impossible to handle more than two in real combat?”

“The speed is no joke. The magic stone has already come out in a sack. The amount that would have taken us an entire month to collect came out in three days.”

And so the weekend arrived.

* * *

“Mr. Yang, I searched 5km along the southern and northern coasts of the port, but I couldn’t find anything that looked like a spawning pond. For a group of hundreds to come to this port from more than that distance is very strange for the ecology of the beast-type demons.”

“Hearing what Hunter said, it certainly seems that way.”

“I have a question, can I borrow a boat?”

“Are you talking about the boat?”

“I think we should also go to the islands visible ahead.”

President Yang thought for a moment and then nodded.

For a moment, relief and triumph came over his face.

“Please use as much as you want.”

Booooooo!

The Psionic Engine, a proud export item of Korea’s magic stone conglomerates.

A ship equipped with that engine quickly crossed the sea and arrived at a nearby uninhabited island.

“Let’s go into that coastal cave just once. I feel a strange magic.”

“Yes. I will direct you there.”

Segawa and Cheon Sahee cut up the demons wandering around on the rocks and then entered a coastal cave deeply dug into the rocks.

‘uh?’

I felt a mass of magical energy swirling inside the cave, just like when I was watching a telekinesis.

Cheon Sa-hee seemed to notice that too, and nodded her head with a bitter smile.

That was when.

“Whoa!”

Suddenly, Cheon Sa-hee was sucked into a pool of seawater on one side of the cave.

with a splash!

The water wasn’t that deep, but on the wall next to the pool lived the most horrifying demonic creature Sega had ever seen.

“What the heck?!”

The shell, which was thought to be a black rock, rolled inward, revealing a bundle of deep pink tentacles.

“Chwiiiiiik-!”

It was a demonic creature that looked like a giant mouth or door, with hundreds, maybe thousands, of writhing pink tentacles.

If you grow the malmijal to about 5m in diameter, it would be similar.

Blue sparks flew from some of the tentacles, and whenever they touched her body, Cheon Sa-hee shuddered and screamed in pain.

Pink tentacles bound her thin wrists together and lifted them above her head, forcing her thighs apart.

The situation was resolved immediately by pulling out the sword.

‘It’s only black now.’

The electric blast wouldn’t work well on the demon using electricity, it would take too long to burn the half-submerged demon with the blue flames, and there was no telling what might happen while he was dragging it out with his telekinesis.

“Cheon Sa-hee! Don’t move!”

Sega swung his sword across the pool against the pink tentacle wall.

Choaaaak-!

A bunch of severed tentacles fell like rain.

A few of them even landed on Sega’s face or body.

The demon’s tentacles trembled and emitted blue electricity.

Phage crackle-!

Sega gritted his teeth and held on.

“Huh!”

I felt like my head was burning white, but I didn’t let go of my sword.

I aimed for the center and stabbed with my sword.

Phew!

The bright blue energy dug into the demon’s body.

The tentacles that had been lifting Cheon Sa-hee lost their strength.

with a splash.

She fell on her butt in a puddle of water.

Her mature blue underwear and white skin were clearly visible beneath her soaking wet school uniform blouse.

“Isn’t it embarrassing when you look at me like that?”

Sega held out his left hand towards Cheon Sa-hee while still aiming his sword at the demon with his right hand.

“Let’s stop talking. Can you get up?”

Cheon Sa-hee stood up, holding Sega’s hand.

Hot.

For a moment, Sega’s brow furrowed.

Even after burning and killing the demon that resembled Malmijal, Cheon Sahee was still holding onto Sega’s hand tightly.

“I was pleasantly surprised. Thank you.”

“… … .”

Even though a beautiful schoolgirl was holding his hand, Sega’s expression was not very bright.

‘Why on earth did you do that?’

It takes a while to walk inside the cave.

Sega’s footsteps gradually slowed down.

‘Did you just check whether I would save you right away? To see if you trusted your abilities? Or to see how much you valued your life, which had a guaranteed future?’

There are times when ignorance is bliss, but I felt like I had to touch on this much.

“Can I ask you just one thing?”

“Yes, please do.”

She answered leisurely, as if she had been almost eaten by a demon less than three minutes ago.

“Were you able to come out alone earlier?”

“How could that be? Even I, a perfect person, make mistakes sometimes.”

“I have a constant state of rigidity. But when you grabbed my hand earlier, my flesh caved in. At that level, you could have just torn that piece of shit off and come out.”

Cheon Sa-hee smiled questioningly.

The orange eyes curved like crescent moons.

“Oh, my. Just pretend you don’t know about that.”

The tone of voice that was used made the person being pointed out feel like an idiot.

“No. It’s dangerous! How many demons… … .”

“Because like Sega said, I can tear you apart and come out at any time?”

“So why do you do something like that?”

“But.”

Cheon Sa-hee laughed like a little devil.

“You didn’t want to see that? I thought you’d like it.”

She leaned forward, her chest puffed out as if showing off.

It was a temptation that had no synergy with the ballerina-like body.

Sega shook his head firmly.

“I don’t know if you know, but I’m from a refugee camp, so I’m very wary of demons. I have a rough idea of ??what you’re drawing, but I just can’t seem to think about it that way.”

I felt so tired that I closed my eyes tightly and opened them again.

‘You can’t be serious, right? Even though there are many strange people among the Awakened, using a demon to do something like that… I don’t know. I’ll figure it out somehow. For now, let’s try to please the young lady of the conglomerate. She’s a valuable partner who burned hundreds of demons to death in three days.’

Swish.

Sega bowed his head slightly and met Cheon Sa-hee’s eyes.

He asked with his usual confident and demanding smile.

“But why did you do something I thought you would like?”

Cheon Sa-hee blinked her long-lashed eyes.

“yes?”

He let out a bewildered voice, as if he had not expected someone to come at him so openly.

* * *

Since the mission was the priority, the two walked inside the cave.

Now the entrance seemed so distant that I began to doubt whether such a coastal cave could have formed naturally on the West Sea of ??Korea.

After a while, a large cavity came into view.

Light streamed in through holes here and there in the ceiling, allowing a clear view.

There were large puddles of water here and there, where the sea water was coming in from the other side, and fish-like creatures were swarming around the puddles, and there was even a large fish-like creature with a shark’s head instead of a regular fish’s head.

But the insides of the puddles were completely empty, and there were half-submerged clumps of frogspawn-like grains gathered together to form a cluster.

Each of those little eggs was the size of a whole watermelon.

‘It’s a spawning ground. If we get rid of it, the mission is complete.’

Sega roughly calculated the number of demons.

“I think there are over 300 of them. Even if they are low-level demons with guns, it would be difficult for the two of us to deal with them.”

It was obvious that before one could be killed, the next one would sink its teeth into it.

Even if I could hold out against one or two with the help of a martial arts technique, I didn’t know what would happen if there were ten or a hundred of them.

“Let’s go back and call Team Leader Kim. It’ll be a lot easier if those hunters just provide support with guns. It’ll be even easier if we can get grenades and such. If we attack now.”

Cheon Sa-hee cut him off, smiling like a fox.

“Wouldn’t it be fun?”

“what?”

“I can deal with the small ones, so just deal with the crab demon and that big shark human demon.”

She went forward to the rock where she had been hiding.

Hwaaaaak!

As hundreds of pairs of bulging eyes poured into her, Cheon Sa-hee smiled calmly and said while spreading her wings that were emitting a soft white light from her back.

“Can you do it? You, given the situation.”

Sega had no choice but to get up and follow her.

“of course.”

Strangely enough, I didn’t feel bad.